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Hahaha. That's hilarious about Michael Caine. I'd never even heard of the movie until someone said "hey man you like taxi driver right? isn't that your all time favorite film? I saw a film that's just like it!" He should have added -- after all that -- "....but retarded!" Just think of that... "I saw a film that's just like it!.....but retarded!" It works so well. Sadly, I think the film blew his mind, so I'm just going to quietly "no comment" on it, to him. But fuck I'll tear it a new asshole on here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ............and now I'm done.
Seriously, all the best films I've seen in the past decade have come from Japan. Either that, or DEEP in the underground here (Jost, Fotopolous, Packard, Andrews, Trecartin, etc). But, man, RAMPO NOIR, TASTE OF TEA, FUNKY FOREST, LOVE EXPOSURE, INVISIBLE WAVES, BRIGHT FUTURE, LAST LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE are all mainstream films there (and a lot of those starred Tadanobou Asano, the world's greatest director -- I mean, seriously, 95% of the roles this guy chooses are ACE; he must have the best agent in the entire world or something, I mean FUCK! He's worked with Sogo Ishii, Kitano, Shinji Aoyanama, Tsukamoto, and uh... that one hack who made that amazing film Izo that no one knows and we'll never speak of again... But, yeah, FUCK! Even Kitano's films get theatrical releases. Blows my fucking MIND. Sadly, I still read on facebook all the time, and know people, who go "I HATE SUBTITLEZZZ." Because, you know, learning to read was just a skill everyone in the world learned in kindergarten. But apparently, being forced to read now is just horrifying. The thing is, Japanese cinema is usually contemplative, meditative, and... well, point is, there usually isn't much dialogue to begin with! I probably would have blown my brains out years ago if it wasn't for inventive, unique, mindfuckingly good Japanese cinema. I can always count on it to give me a pleasure boner.
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